Mistral AI
Lineage
- Assistant
- Vibe
- Model families
- Mistral LargeMistral Medium
- Headquarters and founding
- Paris, France; founded in 2023
- Leadership
- Arthur Mensch, chief executive and co-founder; Guillaume Lample, chief scientist and co-founder
Founding and headquarters: Registre national des entreprises, Mistral AI (SIREN 952,418,325), 9 November 2026 ↗
Mistral AI's assistant
The assistants ranking →VibeAssistant · Celsius score40out of 100, 6th out of 10Performance7Ethics41Environment72The assistant profile →Mistral AI's models
Mistral AI's models, general intelligence and release date
Epoch AI ECI index and its 95% interval; 3 models released in 2026 and measured by the ECI index; 3 models measured in all, in the "Table" tab
Dot: the index measured, at the release dateLine: the 95% interval
Sources: Epoch AI, "Capabilities & benchmarking", ECI index and APEX-Agents. CC BY 4.0 licence.
An underlined name links to the model profile; the others are below the threshold for a profile (3 public measurements, or a place in the top 10 of a benchmark).
Governance and safety
- Company governance
- French company, European code signed in full; framework agreement with the Ministry of the Armed Forces with no published limit (1/2026).
- Model safety
- Last of the 9 companies rated by the Future of Life Institute (F, summer 2026); no published safety framework; Mistral Large 3, worst resistance to jailbreaks in Phare (24.9%, 7/2026).
Electricity and environmental approach
- Decarbonised electricity
- Data hosted in the European Union by default (210 g CO₂e/kWh); data centre in Essonne announced.
- Company's environmental approach
- Only life cycle assessment published by an AI company (2025), never updated; no corporate report.
Methodology: the ranking criteria ; the electricity use of a task for its models is a Projet Celsius estimate, based on the electricity use ofwriting 1,000 tokens (AI Impact Database).
Scores and facts: assistants ranking, scores as of 11/11/2026 (methodology 1.1), sources on the Vibe page. Models: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Continue in the ranking
The full ranking →AssistantVibe40out of 100, 6th out of 10Scores, plans, models, data and environment.The entry →ModelMistral AIMistral Large 445thout of 71 on general intelligenceMistral AI's best-ranked model on general intelligence.The entry →
CompanyAlibaba13models measured, of which 3 with an entryIts assistant, its models, its governance and the electricity of its data centres.The entry →The hub newsletter
This month's ranking, news on the impact of AI and one figure from the AI Impact Database. One newsletter a month at most, free of charge. Past issues
